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Colombian wholesale Internet Service Provider (ISP) Skynet is using the O3b Satellites to provide connectivity in and around the city of Leticia, the capital city of the Amazonas Department in Colombia. Skynet will provide broadband trunking services to Mobile Network Operators...

Contact center outsourcing firm Atento S.A. (NYSE: ATTO) has opened a new contact center for customer service in Pereira, Risaralda, Finance Colombia has learned. This makes Atento’s third center in Pereira, and eighth center in Colombia. The center in Tres Nevados-Pereira will...

In the last 12 months, just 20 percent of cell phone users in Colombia have changed their provider, followed by 19 percent in Brazil and Mexico, 17 percent in Chile and Peru, and just nine percent in Argentina. Across Latin American countries, only 20 percent or less of cell...

By now, most of us are aware of the ‘game’ played by printer manufacturers:  Offer an inkjet or small-office laser printer at a price lower than the cost of manufacturing, then make significant profits on the exorbitantly priced printer cartridges, known as “consumables” by...

Indian motorcycle company Royal Enfield wants to expand globally, and it is targeting Colombia as a key market. “Currently we are an Indian company,” CEO Siddhartha Lal told India’s Business Standard in July. “We want to be a global player.” Royal Enfield boasts that...

Bogota, July 14, 2015 – ETB, Bogotá’s telecommunications company, has named Credicorp Capital Colombia, S.A. to serve as a market maker in the BVC (Bolsa de Valores de Colombia), Colombia’s primary stock exchange. ETB, seeks to make its shares more liquid and attractive to...

South American retailer Cencosud has selected Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) to offer IT help desk services to internal users in Colombia, Chile, Perú, Brasil, and Argentina. The five year deal represents the first time that Cencosud has signed such a deal with a technology...

Finance Colombia has learned that global IT giant Hewlett Packard will be closing its Medellin offices in the Ruta-N business incubator, and other commercial offices based in the city. The California based computer and services company has been in a period of uncertainty for some...

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) has announced the launch of the Unisys Global Innovation Center in Bogotá, Colombia. This center will be focused on the creation of customized IT solutions for Unisys clients throughout the world. The Bogotá center will be the second of its kind...

Colombia has turned out to be one of the major players in the growth of LTE in Latin America due to early commercial launches of the technology in 2012, preceding even the launches in the US by Sprint and T-Mobile and beating out markets like Denmark, Spain, France and Italy. The...